At the Computers Freedom and Privacy conference, I moderated a panel on “Do Not Track.” I tried to make sure it was fun, and I think it was. Among other things, yes, I called Ed Felten, “baby.” Check it out.
The nice folks at the New York Times “Room for Debate” feature asked me and a group of bright lights to discuss the Verizon-Google agreement on network neutrality regulation, as it stood at various points in the day. Read the comments of Tim Wu, Lawrence Lessig, David Gelernter, Ed Felten, Jonathan Zittrain, and myself. Much [...]
Those of you interested in transparency and “Government 2.0″ issues will absolutely want to pick up Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice, a terrific collection of 34 essays edited by Daniel Lathrop and Laurel Ruma. Much like Access Controlled, the collection of essays on global Internet filtering and censorship that I praised here [...]
Google has—as I noted it would last June—finally released (PCWorld, Google’s policy blog) its eagerly-awaited suite of tools available for free (of course) at MeasurementLab.net that allow users to monitor how their ISP might be tweaking (degrading, deprioritizing, etc.) their traffic—among other handy features. Huzzah! So, now that we have visibility into traffic management practices on a large [...]
The video of last week’s Cato policy forum can be viewed here. (Check out TLFer Jerry Brito’s fine presentation.) If your preference is for a briefer taste of the transparency issues, a podcast with Ed Felten recorded that day is here:
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